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Tonight is the the 3rd and final
installment of the Voice in the 

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voyage. 
It's been my great honor. 

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I love you guys. 
Again, this is my home church 

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with you all and there's, 
there's nothing like being 

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amongst your family and being 
able to minister the word of God

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and see growth and development. 
I've, I've grown as much as you 

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have in this process. 
The study that I've been able to

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do has been fantastic and being 
able to come in here and share 

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the word is a it's a great give 
and take for all of us. 

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The Holy Ghost isn't just 
speaking only to you. 

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He's speaking through me and I 
get to partake and it's an 

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honor. 
Apostle Earl's doing the work of

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an apostle. 
Presently he is with our Port 

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St. 
Joe family that he's let us know

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on Sunday. 
He's doing some administrative 

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things with them, meeting with 
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Powerful. 
God's moving. 

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Just 'cause you don't see 
outside of this place doesn't 

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mean he's not doing impactful, 
powerful things across the 

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nation. 
I mean, Anchor Faith Church, 

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whether you are present for 
every area or not, every day is 

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igniting the city, impacting the
nation and influencing the 

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world. 
Even in other time zones, while 

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you're asleep, there's other 
time zones that Anchor Faith 

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Church. 
People are praying even while 

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even while Sunday, Sunday 
evening may be going on, there's

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people that have already paved 
the way in prayer for what we do

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on Sunday hours before we've 
showed up. 

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Amen. 
This I'm telling you I'm. 

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Honored to be part of this. 
I love my church tonight. 

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As we get back into jump back 
into this series here again to 

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give a little bit of a recap. 
The key text that we have for 

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for this this whole month has 
been James chapter 3 verses 4:00

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and 5:00. 
James chapter 3 verse four and 

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five. 
It says. 

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And look at ships also. 
Though they are so great and 

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driven by strong winds, they are
still directed by a very small 

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rudder that whatever the 
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desires. 
So also the tongue is a small 

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part of the body, yet it boasts 
great things. 

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See how a great forest is set 
aflame by such a small fire. 

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So. 
Every living person that that 

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has a beating heart in this 
place today has a destiny from 

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God. 
Before you were born, God knew 

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that you would be born and said,
I have a plan and a purpose and 

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an assignment for them to 
accomplish. 

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He he's, he's not haphazard, 
God's not reactionary to things.

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He has a a response to any kind 
of failure, but he also has a 

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plan before that ever takes 
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So whenever you were born, 
regardless of the circumstances,

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you don't have to tell me 
whether your dad was there or 

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not there, whether your mom 
wanted or didn't want you. 

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Either way, the Heavenly Father 
wants you and not only wants 

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you, but needs you. 
He needs your assignment in the 

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earth. 
And not only does he need you, 

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but the whole world needs you to
step up and rise up and become 

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who you were born to be. 
We've said before that, you 

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know, graveyards are the richest
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buried under that soil is the 
treasure of books that were 

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never written, songs that were 
never sung, paintings that were 

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never painted, lives that never 
got to be impacted because those

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people were buried too soon, too
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But let it not be said of us 
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hard as we could, that we didn't
lay aside the flesh and find our

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destiny and then do that. 
So where we can say, like the 

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Apostle Paul said in the end of 
his days, he said, I've poured 

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out my life like a drink 
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That means he left it all on the
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Man, I don't want to, I don't 
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the king show up in my face and 
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here. 
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said I've, I did, I laid my life
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I did my assignment. 
I found my purpose. 

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I did it with my whole heart, 
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thought about it, regardless 
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came against me. 
I persevered and did what the 

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King assigned me. 
But that's what goes on in the 

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lives of believers is that we 
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especially when you get born 
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course that God, he's got a, 
he's got a map for you. 

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He's got the compass, He's got 
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waypoints laid out. 
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get there. 
And the thing that guides you 

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along the path of your destiny 
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See, we talk about the voice and
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There's two voices happening. 
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the captain declaring, here's 
where you should go. 

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The second voice is your mouth 
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Your whole life goes in the 
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In the first week, we. 
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word and hopefully that, you 
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much more said about that. 
Do we understand words are the 

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most valuable thing in the 
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Words are what the Creator of 
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King, decided to use not only to
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administrate, establish, and 
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this planet. 
Still, nothing's more valuable 

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than words. 
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the authority of our confession,
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And I love that this has been a 
great time for us to come in and

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not only have the the spiritual 
revelation from the word of what

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it is, but also the practical 
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things. 
Because it's one thing, come up 

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and say you should have a good 
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And that sounds very Christian, 
Christianese, I'm aware. 

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Not everybody has grown up in 
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Not everybody has read the Bible
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Not everybody has done that. 
So when you say things like you,

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you should be led by the spirit,
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And they're like, what are you 
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Sometimes it's good for us to 
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it down and explain what we mean
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Same thing. 
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Somebody's like, I didn't say 
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room with a That's not what 
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confession. 
Is what comes out of our mouth 

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God created us to be a speaking 
spirit which means when we speak

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authority is released identity 
is revealed we permit things in 

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heaven and earth we we you know 
begin to establish our character

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and reveal our character it's a 
powerful thing every time that 

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words begin to. 
Be used so this third. 

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And final installment here, 
we're going to talk about 

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conversation because a lot of 
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negative confession, decreeing 
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If you get a bad report, what do
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How do I speak out words of 
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But I find even in the Bible, 
and we'll look at a couple 

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stories tonight, but people can 
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this planet through 
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Just as much as a declaration of
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powerful and can release his 
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conversation response to 
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Now it's important to realize 
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set the stage for the night. 
The voice that you value is the 

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voice you will echo. 
The voice you value is the voice

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that you will echo. 
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Said last week, the Greek word 
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to say the same thing. 
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decree something, declare the 
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Speak something. 
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that should be what comes up out
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Now you don't have to be again. 
Weird. 

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Give me a weird Christian. 
You don't have to respond to 

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everybody in a verse. 
OK? 

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Sometimes we can have to. 
Hey, how was your golf game? 

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I was blessed and highly favored
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Lord showed up and his creation 
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Don't just tell me you shot 
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That's all I needed. 
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He's blessed and highly favored 
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We don't. 
We can have conversate, be 

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conversational, but know that 
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conversation is what we gain 
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Not just the poetry of our 
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our conversation, but the voice 
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you'll echo, which I can tell a 
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Wow, it seems like you value 
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It seems like we can really 
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saying like they just want to 
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right? 
Nobody's like, oh, I only speak 

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what the devil says. 
Nobody's going to say that. 

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But a lot of times people will 
be like really opinionated 

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themselves and want to tell you 
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And they end up drifting their 
conversation into an area that's

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not what God thinks, but just 
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So where they either don't know 
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subject. 
Or they don't really care 

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because the voice they value the
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curated themselves from 
listening to a bunch of 

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podcasts, from listening to a 
bunch of coworkers, from 

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listening to a bunch of 
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Sometimes when you're talking to
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you get that? 
You ain't smart enough to form 

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that sentence. 
You're repeating somebody else 

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that you believe and value their
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true. 
People do this conversationally 

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about each other. 
Do you hear so and so? 

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Do you hear what so and so did? 
Well, they didn't hear it from 

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so and so. 
So they heard it from somebody 

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else and they valued it enough 
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repeating it. 
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that we know of Israel a couple 
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ago. 
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we can look at the. 
Let's look at I'm just going to 

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appear for the sake of time. 
I'm going to tell you the story.

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OK, I'm just going to tell you 
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You have an obligation. 
Go look it up. 

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The book of Numbers, in fact, 
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What you should do this week if 
I'm going to give you a reading 

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assignment like Apostle Marcy. 
Read Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus,

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Numbers, and Deuteronomy all. 
Five books of the She normally 

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gives a small assignment. 
Don't read this whole thing. 

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This is the full context of the 
Torah, the Pentatuch, the five 

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books that Moses wrote. 
But in the midst of Israel 

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establishing themselves and 
being drawn out of Egypt, they 

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went to go into the Promised 
Land that God had shown them. 

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The whole reason they came out 
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God was delivering them to a new
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They understood this well. 
They knew they weren't just 

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coming out to wander. 
That wasn't the goal. 

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They know God has promised us a 
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God. 
Not just Moses, it was clear who

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promised them God. 
The undefeated never lost a 

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battle, ruler of heaven and 
earth, worker of all great 

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miracles that they had recently 
just seen a bunch of great 

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miracles. 
That's the God that promised 

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them land. 
So they knew what they were 

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getting into. 
They go out into the and they're

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like God's leading us into a 
promised land. 

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So then Moses says, listen, go 
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in it. 
He didn't say, and you can go 

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look at it for yourself. 
He didn't say, hey, go see if 

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we. 
Can. 

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See the the conversation that he
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He echoed What the. 
Lord said go. 

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Go in and spy out the land and 
bring back a report of what's in

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the land. 
They knew what's in the land 

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belongs to us because God has 
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take this new land. 
So he sends 12 spies, one from 

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each tribe. 
They go into the land. 

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They start down at the very 
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They work their way all the way 
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They travel. 
It takes them a month. 

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To journey and go through and 
when they came back Moses is 

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like report what was it but we 
know how human beings are right 

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like y'all ain't that much 
different than people that lived

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3000 years ago These people 
didn't just because we read it 

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in the Bible and it. 
Skips ahead. 

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This story does. 
Like when I say a month, they 

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didn't just walk in like robots 
and silently for one month only 

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look around and come back and I 
will report they talking. 

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In fact, it's a bunch of dudes 
hanging out together camping. 

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There's conversation every day, 
every night, and we can tell 

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what that conversation was. 
I wasn't there. 

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None of y'all were there, but we
all know what the conversation 

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was by what came out of their 
mouth when they came back to 

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report. 
And that should be important to 

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note because I'm not in every 
conversation with people when 

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they're talking in their homes 
and with their families and with

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their friends. 
But you can tell what they talk 

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about whenever they start to 
report to you about their life. 

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We don't have to be present. 
Oh, you weren't there? 

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But I'm here now and I hear what
you're saying. 

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And that thought came from 
somewhere. 

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So then we get 10 of the 12 
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Majority come back the majority 
and they go there's giants in 

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the land. 
Great. 

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Also, we already knew that the 
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real Bible nerd for a second, 
the land they entered into is 

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called Kireth Arba. 
Arba is the most famous giant of

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that time. 
He had a son named Anak. 

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Anak had three sons. 
This is all in the Bible, and it

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says that they sang folk tales 
of the three sons. 

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Who can stand against the sons 
of Anak. 

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We already knew that. 
Moses already knew that. 

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So when they came back, there's 
giants in the land, Moses, like,

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yeah, OK, So what do we see? 
They said we're like 

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grasshoppers in their sight. 
OK, let's use our brains. 

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Let's just say they were like 12
feet tall. 

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They're not even like the 9 foot
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They're 12 feet tall. 
Grasshoppers. 

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For that to be a mathematical 
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accurate, No. 
What's happened? 

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I'll tell you I wasn't there, 
but I'll tell you what happened.

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Somebody saw the giants and in 
fear said we're like 

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grasshoppers. 
And everybody's like, oh, that's

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good. 
We are. 

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That's poetic. 
Oh my gosh, we're like, that's, 

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that's our mantra. 
We're going to go back and 

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that's what we say. 
Now there's two people. 

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Then apparently those 
conversations went different for

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those other two people. 
And I'm just going to say their 

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names were Joshua and Caleb. 
Now, listen, I got a brother. 

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He lives in Georgia. 
His name's Caleb. 

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And I'm not saying, but I am 
saying we trust what the Lord 

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says. 
But if you notice, because of 

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their conversations, Joshua and 
Caleb had to also suffer for 40 

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years in the wilderness. 
Conversation is what caused them

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to postpone their assignment. 
They didn't come back and say, 

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let's, you know, make a covenant
and shed blood so that we can 

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make in a decree that we will 
not go in, right? 

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No. 
All they did was came. 

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Back and gave a negative report.
They came in and complained 

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about what God said to their 
leader. 

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We're like, we're like 
grasshoppers on the side. 

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Like what can we do? 
Their conversation charted a 

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different course than was 
assigned to them. 

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Think about it. 
They were assigned to go on from

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one place on a map to another, 
and because of conversation, it 

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charted a different course that 
took them a much further route. 

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40 years. 
What should have been 10 days or

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less took them 40. 
Years to get there because of 

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their mouths. 
And they obviously had 

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conversation amongst themselves 
because those ten were in 

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agreement. 
Just because you get together 

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with friends and you start 
talking and get in agreement 

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about something doesn't mean 
you're right. 

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Also, it doesn't mean you're 
picking the wrong sides. 

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In the end there's not, oh, I 
agree with this person and this 

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person. 
Let's pick sides and whose side 

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are you on? 
I'm only ever on one side, only 

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one. 
And that is what is the word 

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say? 
What is God declaring? 

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Moses wasn't on a Moses side. 
Moses just agreed with God. 

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Joshua and Caleb didn't say we 
just agree with Moses. 

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No, they said what did God say? 
We agree we can do it. 

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So just for fun extra, you know,
Bible nerd things that that 

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region with the giants. 
The very first battle they get 

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in, not whenever they they leave
that and they're going to have 

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to wander. 
The first battle they get in 

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with a giant is this guy named 
Aug who's mentioned 30 times Aug

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of Bastion. 
How do I know that 'cause I read

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it. 
I read the Amplified Bible all 

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the way through Aug of Bastion. 
Aug of Bastion it says in 

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parentheses and not in 
parentheses. 

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That guy was known to be more 
than 13 feet tall, had a bed of 

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iron 13 feet tall, and was the 
most legendary well known giant 

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in all the land and was a king 
of a territory. 

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The first guy Joshua goes and 
fights and kills is the worst 

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biggest giant and they had to 
still spend another 40 years 

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walking around. 
Isn't that like God? 

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He's like you're afraid. 
OK, let's go knock out the 

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biggest, baddest one and show 
you how ridiculous your whining 

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was. 
If you can get this guy, you can

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get the rest, but you're going 
to have to wait 40 years. 

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So in that region is the region 
of Hebron. 

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Well, there's a big mountain 
where Joshua and Caleb went up 

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and they saw it, and that region
is where the giants lived. 

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Turns out that's the same 
mountain that 40 years later 

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when Joshua and Caleb go back 
into the promised land after the

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Battle of Jericho. 
And they go in there. 

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Caleb looks up at a mountain and
says, I want that mountain. 

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You know what mountain? 
That was the one with the most 

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legendary giants of that region.
The sons of Anak lived there. 

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So Caleb, at more than 80 years 
old, went in and accomplished 

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what everybody else could have 
had. 

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They just had the same 
conversation. 

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I'm telling you, you got Joshua 
and Caleb in there. 

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They're. 
Oh, yeah. 

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They're like Moses is yes man. 
They're God's yes man. 

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God said you can conquer. 
And they said we agree. 

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If you aren't God's yes man, 
you're missing it. 

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What do you God's no man? 
That's terrible. 

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God declares something or 
decrees something in your life 

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or asks you to do something. 
You go, no, what? 

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No, that's the problem is we 
don't have. 

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It's not about having allegiance
just to a person. 

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I've got an allegiance to a 
message. 

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I've got an allegiance to a word
from the king. 

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I've got an allegiance to the 
king. 

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I'm a King's man. 
I don't care if you all disagree

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in the end, I'm going to go back
to the word and say if the word 

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says it, I believe it. 
That settles it. 

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I'm going to declare it and 
speak it out of my mouth. 

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So if you're like, oh, our 
conversations don't really 

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matter, you know, it depends on 
who you're talking to. 

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That's not the criteria. 
Your motives are ever present no

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matter who you're talking to. 
Your words that come out of your

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mouth carry the same authority 
every time your mouth opens, no 

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matter who you're talking to. 
Oh, I got my one friend. 

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I can vent to them a little bit.
Careful with your venting. 

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Careful with your venting that 
it doesn't wind up you and your 

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friends showing back up with 
somebody and saying, well, 

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here's what the Lord said. 
Look, look at how we look in 

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their eyes. 
Be careful. 

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What derailed the whole nation 
for 40 years was just them not 

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agreeing with the king. 
And they were in unity. 

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I mean, you look at the Tower of
Babel. 

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These people were in unity with 
their conversation. 

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So then God goes in and confuses
the words they're saying. 

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You don't think words matter? 
That's the one thing that was 

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keeping their ungodly stuff 
together in unity. 

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People like, we should have 
unity. 

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Then why aren't we saying and 
echoing what God is saying about

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everything? 
I find it interesting. 

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People will come and they'll be 
like, oh, hey, what do you think

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about this? 
And I say that and they're like,

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oh, Pastor Chase just told me 
the same thing. 

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Well, it's not 'cause me and 
Pastor Chase got together and 

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texted each other, Hey, what did
you respond to this person? 

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I want to make sure that we're 
saying the same thing. 

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It's because we both know the 
words and whenever we go into a 

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situation, we look at it. 
We're like, here's what the 

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word. 
Says And they're like, all those

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people disagree with each other.
No, we agree with the Word. 

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What else am I going to say? 
What do you want? 

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Oh, you want my opinion? 
That doesn't carry power. 

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My opinion can send you down a 
course that would be detrimental

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for both of us. 
What you want from me is what 

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genuinely carries the authority 
and power of God, which is the 

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word of God. 
But how do you feel about it? 

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Who? 
Cares stop. 

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Stop looking at how you. 
Feel. 

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If you surround yourself by a 
bunch of people that feel like 

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you, maybe you're going to be 
stuck there feeling that way 

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forever. 
If your words chart of course. 

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You're on be careful who you 
surround your body, because if 

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you get around people whose 
words aren't on the same path as

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you, you're going to go with 
them. 

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If God's assigned a destiny to 
you, if he's assigned A mandate 

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to you in a in a purpose and 
you're on going in a direction. 

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I don't have an allegiance just 
to my old friendships because 

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we've known each other a long 
time. 

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I don't have a religion, an 
allegiance to blood relatives. 

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Jesus even said himself, listen,
who is my mother and who are my 

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brothers? 
Those who do the will of my 

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father, which really what he 
could be saying in the light of 

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what we're saying here. 
Those who are headed in the same

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charted path as me, if every 
time you're getting around this 

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friend and everything they're 
saying is the opposite of what 

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God's calling you to do and 
they're always just constantly 

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telling you, oh, you shouldn't 
do that. 

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Here's what God has in my heart.
No, no. 

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At some point, when do you say 
what we covered last week and 

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Jesus looked at Peter and goes, 
get thee behind me, Satan, you 

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set your mind on man's 
interests, but I need somebody 

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to set their mind on God's 
interests if they're going to 

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talk to me. 
If you always just got man's 

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interests, I'm sorry if I'm not 
calling you all the time, I know

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who I can call. 
The Bible does say in a 

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multitude of counselors their 
safety. 

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It does not say in a multitude 
of opinions their safety. 

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It is not saying a multitude of 
friendships their safety. 

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It does not say in a multitude 
of words their safety. 

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I know who to go to that will 
actually give counsel. 

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Counsel is somebody that says, 
let's look at the word. 

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What does it say about? 
This. 

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Somebody goes well, you know, 
someone's my cousin. 

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You know they, they did the same
thing. 

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I don't want to hear it. 
I don't hear about your cousin. 

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I'm not your cousin. 
I want to hear about what is the

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word say. 
So our conversations are 

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important. 
Let's look at this here. 

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It says in Proverbs chapter 13, 
verse 20. 

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There's so much in Proverbs 
about our words, about your 

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mouth. 
In fact, of of many of the 

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subjects in the Bible, I've 
found that your conversation in 

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your words is one of the top #1 
addressed things in the New 

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Testament. 
When Paul begins writing letters

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to the churches and letters to 
the pastors, he begins to deal 

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with them always, at every 
point, at some point, what 

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they're saying out of their 
mouth. 

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He told Timothy in his letter 
to. 

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Timothy as a pastor, he said. 
Set an example in your 

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conversation. 
Set an example in your 

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conversation. 
Proverbs 1320 says he who walks 

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with wise men will be wise, but 
the companion of fools will 

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suffer harm. 
Now from the biblical standpoint

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of what character and what wise 
would mean, I think we can 

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deduce it doesn't have to say 
those who always have their 

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conversations right. 
It doesn't have to say that word

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for word, but a wise man guards 
the gate of his mouth. 

453
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If you're walking with people 
who are continually just saying 

454
00:23:08,120 --> 00:23:11,720
whatever's on their mind and not
guarding their mouth, they're 

455
00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:15,040
not wise. 
In fact, there's this statement 

456
00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:17,000
that's, you know, for a long 
time, you know, growing up in 

457
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,160
church, there was like, I wanted
to have quotes, you know, 

458
00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:20,360
outside the Bible for some 
reason. 

459
00:23:20,360 --> 00:23:23,080
It was the dumbest thought, but 
I there was, I was like, I want 

460
00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:24,720
to quote presidents. 
That'll be cool. 

461
00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:26,120
Abraham Lincoln has this awesome
quote. 

462
00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:30,240
He's like even a fool can seem 
wise if he keeps his mouth shut.

463
00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:35,120
Turns out that's not Abraham 
Lincoln. 

464
00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:38,680
That's Proverbs. 
All the best ones come from the 

465
00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:39,680
Bible. 
You don't got to look for 

466
00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:41,840
somebody else, OK? 
They're all either just 

467
00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:43,840
rephrasing something or going 
somewhere else. 

468
00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:46,760
So again, a fool can seem wise 
if he keeps his mouth shut. 

469
00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:49,080
Why? 
Because it reveals who you are 

470
00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:51,880
and what type of person you are 
the moment you open your mouth. 

471
00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:55,640
And you can try to pull the wool
over everybody's eyes and say, 

472
00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:57,240
say the right thing. 
But you know what? 

473
00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:00,320
There's always a harmony. 
Between what you think, what you

474
00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:03,360
say, and what you do. 
The moment one of those. 3 gets 

475
00:24:03,360 --> 00:24:06,440
out of alignment. 
You're a wacko. 

476
00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:12,240
You're an absolute wacko. 
What you think, what you say, 

477
00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:13,800
what you do. 
See, you can try to trick people

478
00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:16,200
with what you say and say 
something, but what I can tell 

479
00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:17,680
what you're thinking because 
what you're saying. 

480
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:19,520
Doesn't seem to line up, and 
what you're doing definitely 

481
00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:21,280
doesn't line up. 
So one of these three doesn't 

482
00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:24,480
belong. 
Or somebody's always saying, 

483
00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:28,160
saying, saying something, yet 
how they act ain't it. 

484
00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:32,800
That's weird. 
That's what causes unbelievers 

485
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:34,400
to look at Christians to go 
they're fake. 

486
00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:37,720
That's what causes unbelievers 
to look at believers and be 

487
00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:40,240
like, Oh yeah, you know, they're
what is the word they use for 

488
00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:43,560
it? 
Hypocrites, hypocrites. 

489
00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:46,200
Somebody that says they believe 
something, says they live a 

490
00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:48,640
certain way, but all the 
evidence points to you don't 

491
00:24:50,120 --> 00:24:52,960
what you think, what you say and
what you do should be in 

492
00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:54,800
harmony. 
And in fact, that's a 

493
00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:59,520
progression, what you think is 
out of the. 

494
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:02,880
Abundance of the heart The mouth
will speak also. 

495
00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:05,320
As a man thinks in his own 
heart, so is he. 

496
00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:09,160
So those 2GO together as you 
think on the inside, your mouth 

497
00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:11,840
is going to say that. 
Then from there your actions are

498
00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:13,760
going to line up. 
You're charting the course for 

499
00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:16,400
your. 
Life through what you say in 

500
00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:19,960
your conversation. 
Here's another negative example.

501
00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:22,240
We won't be all negative 
tonight, but it is a warning. 

502
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:26,440
Because it's no good for us to 
just get up and be like, oh, 

503
00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:28,320
confession, declare the word. 
It's all good. 

504
00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:30,280
It's everything's fine. 
And not give you a stern warning

505
00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:34,200
and say hey, but be careful 
because if your mouth carries 

506
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:39,360
what we said last week, life and
death, as a pastor, I'm not 

507
00:25:39,360 --> 00:25:41,880
going to stand up here and say, 
hey, I'm only going to tell you 

508
00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:44,160
about the positive side. 
Whenever there's a danger of 

509
00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:47,400
death, I encourage my children. 
But if they started running out 

510
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:49,560
in in front of a car in the 
street, I wouldn't go. 

511
00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:53,040
You're good. 
You're a great kid. 

512
00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:55,840
I love you. 
I'd probably give a word of 

513
00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:58,480
warning. 
Hey, that'll hurt you come back.

514
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:03,400
Hey, you're in danger. 
So we can't cover the 

515
00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:06,040
conversation of our mouth and 
not to look at both sides of 

516
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:18,920
what's happening. 
In Second Samuel, again, I'll 

517
00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:21,640
kind of paraphrase this passage 
again, but we'll look at Second 

518
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:25,680
Samuel 1516. 
This is where Absalom, the son 

519
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:28,080
of David A. 
Member of the royal household, 

520
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:31,160
an avenger of his sister. 
We already know a lot about this

521
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:32,600
guy by the time this verse shows
up. 

522
00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:35,920
But he decided that he was going
to sit out there and he had a 

523
00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:39,120
better idea of how to lead than 
his leader. 

524
00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:42,120
So he sits outside the city gate
and it tells us he's sitting 

525
00:26:42,120 --> 00:26:43,600
outside the city gate and what 
he would do. 

526
00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:45,840
Is that the people would come to
him and he would say, listen, 

527
00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:48,520
come tell me your problems. 
Tell me what it is. 

528
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:51,920
These people were coming to this
the gate to talk to the king. 

529
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:54,240
But he said you don't need to 
talk to the king. 

530
00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:56,920
Come talk to me. 
Let me hear what it is first to 

531
00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:58,160
make sure that's what you want 
to you. 

532
00:26:58,160 --> 00:26:59,200
Don't you want to embarrass 
yourself? 

533
00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:01,520
Let me hear it. 
And when they told him, he would

534
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:05,760
say, listen, if I was king, I 
would take care of that. 

535
00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:07,400
But I know you don't even have 
to go to the king. 

536
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:09,280
I know he's not going to. 
He's not going to listen to 

537
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:11,840
that. 
The King didn't even get a 

538
00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:14,400
chance. 
King didn't even know. 

539
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:17,600
Because this guy's sitting 
outside the gate. 

540
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:18,640
And what does it say? 
It says. 

541
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:22,560
And in this manner Absalom dealt
with all Israel who came to the 

542
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:26,360
king for judgement, so that 
Absalom stole away the. 

543
00:27:26,360 --> 00:27:32,200
Hearts of the men of Israel, 
you're like, how could God let 

544
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:35,040
that happen? 
Who did God anoint as king over 

545
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:37,000
Israel? 
David. 

546
00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:40,080
No, Absalom is in the royal 
bloodline. 

547
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:44,600
I mean Absalom had every chance.
He could have been king later if

548
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,440
he would have just not aligned 
with David, but aligned with 

549
00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:49,320
what David aligned with right? 
The word. 

550
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:52,720
Had he just aligned himself with
the word, then he could have had

551
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:55,680
every right to become king in 
his own time at the right time. 

552
00:27:56,600 --> 00:28:00,120
But somewhere selfishness and 
selfish motivation rose up in 

553
00:28:00,120 --> 00:28:02,920
him that he wanted to get in 
between. 

554
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:05,800
What is the leader saying and 
what is you tell me? 

555
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,240
Oh OK, Well, if I was. 
King, I would do that different.

556
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:13,680
See if I was a supervisor, you 
know we wouldn't have this 

557
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:16,400
problem. 
Listen, don't don't go to 

558
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:18,000
management yet. 
We all going to get in trouble. 

559
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,240
You tell me what the problem is 
1st and I'll I'll help you. 

560
00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:24,000
Danger. 
Danger. 

561
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:27,640
What's your complaint? 
Tell me your complaint first. 

562
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:29,920
The complaint department. 
It seems like the complaint 

563
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:38,920
department of any organization 
or relationship is a cesspool of

564
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:42,880
revolution and an absolute 
cesspool. 

565
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:53,080
Of sin I'll just say that it's 
against the word of the king 

566
00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:57,160
again it's it's one thing to 
deal with things in reality and 

567
00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:59,400
we talked about that last week 
there's a reality of some things

568
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:02,000
that could be taking place but 
at some point people when they 

569
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,520
shift from what is the reality 
of our situation that needs 

570
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:07,160
changed into. 
Let me just talk about what 

571
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:11,120
needs to be changed. 
Let me let me give this this 

572
00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:12,840
side point scripturally if there
isn't. 

573
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:14,320
An issue and there are you are 
having. 

574
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:15,560
Issues because the. 
Children of Israel, they're 

575
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:17,080
having issues, They're real 
issues. 

576
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:18,600
That they're trying to bring to 
the king. 

577
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,680
But if you're having issues with
other people, the biblical 

578
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:26,480
standard is you go to them if 
they are violating the word, not

579
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:31,440
if they're making you mad. 
I've had it both ways. 

580
00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:33,560
I've I've done things and I'm 
like, oh man, I, I need to stay 

581
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:35,160
on the right path. 
Somebody's like, hey, you, maybe

582
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:36,760
you're drifting. 
Let me come bring me some 

583
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:38,120
correction. 
And here's what the word says 

584
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:39,560
about it. 
I'm like, man, thank you. 

585
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:42,720
And we're good there. 
There's been other times where 

586
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:44,360
people come to me. 
And say I don't like how you 

587
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:50,400
said that. 
OK, Did I say it in love? 

588
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:55,120
It didn't feel like love to me. 
Well, did I violate scripture 

589
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:56,920
somewhere? 
Did what I said wrong was my 

590
00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:58,240
motive. 
I mean, my motive towards you 

591
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:00,160
was right. 
No, it just made me mad. 

592
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:02,920
Well, this isn't a biblical come
to your brother thing. 

593
00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:04,200
It sounds like you got to 
offense yourself. 

594
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:07,680
Go deal with that yourself. 
And we're in the first couple 

595
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:10,000
months of 2026. 
Deal with your own offense stuff

596
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:11,240
so we don't have to do this 
every year. 

597
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:14,600
But if there is a genuine 
biblical issue, if there is a 

598
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:17,160
complaint of in the Kingdom that
is like somebody's violating the

599
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:18,760
word, then go to that person 
directly. 

600
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:25,040
But the goal is restoration. 
The goal is I want to see you do

601
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:27,080
right, let's do right together. 
That's always the goal. 

602
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:28,960
Then if they don't receive that,
if they're like, no, I don't. 

603
00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:30,880
I'll take it. 
Then you take it up. 

604
00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,040
You take it to the leaders of 
the church and meet with them. 

605
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:35,520
The Bible says that in the New 
Testament, New Testament church 

606
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:38,240
right now, our dispensation, 
what we're doing is you take it 

607
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:41,240
there and the goal is. 
Restoration. 

608
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:43,280
How can we do God's will 
together? 

609
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:45,880
Still, let's do God's will. 
Then if they don't receive it, 

610
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:49,080
you take them for the church and
say they they're doing wrong 

611
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:51,200
according to the word. 
They won't receive it in person.

612
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:53,200
They won't receive it from from 
the leadership, they won't 

613
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:54,640
receive it at all. 
Here it is. 

614
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:56,600
That's not the goal. 
The goal is not to embarrass 

615
00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:59,040
somebody or do that, but in the 
end, the result of that, the 

616
00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:04,520
goal is restoration. 
So in any of these things, the 

617
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:07,000
goal would be bring them to 
leaders, bring go to them and 

618
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,360
have restoration take place. 
And that conversation is 

619
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:12,720
wholesome. 
That conversation breeds 

620
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:15,960
righteousness and it breeds 
unity amongst ourselves. 

621
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:17,600
There's been many of people. 
I mean, I'm not going to have 

622
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:18,720
you raise your hand because 
that's awkward. 

623
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:20,880
But if you've ever been 
corrected, you know, I've had 

624
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:22,200
correction from a brother in 
Christ. 

625
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:23,800
I've had correction from 
pastoral staff. 

626
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:25,040
I've had, you know, correction 
happen. 

627
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:28,880
And it was only life to me. 
I'm thankful for any time that I

628
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:31,760
was addressed and said, hey, 
you're getting off. 

629
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,280
Of what God's best is, you need 
to get back to God's best. 

630
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:37,520
I'm thankful for that. 
And the goal was always to 

631
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:39,280
restore. 
But I've also had people talk 

632
00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:40,720
negative about me before, and 
you know what? 

633
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:41,920
Their goal was not to. 
Restore. 

634
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:46,360
Their goal was just to bring 
light to He's wrong. 

635
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:52,280
Regardless of whether I was or 
not, when the Love chapter, 

636
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:54,760
First Corinthians 13 tells us 
pretty clearly about how that 

637
00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:57,520
conversation should go, it's not
so much about just what you're 

638
00:31:57,520 --> 00:31:58,840
saying. 
It's also the motive on which 

639
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:01,360
you say it. 
Because it says pretty clearly, 

640
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:05,640
love does not rejoice in 
unrighteousness. 

641
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:09,200
But rejoices with and the 
amplified is elated with the 

642
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:13,560
truth. 
So you can tell through people's

643
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:18,040
conversation. 
The way like Absalom here, every

644
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:21,680
time somebody brought him a 
problem, he was elated in the 

645
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,760
problem. 
That problem was an opportunity 

646
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:29,760
for him to have conversation. 
See, love does not rejoice in 

647
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:32,840
the unrighteousness. 
Love comes and says what can we 

648
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:33,960
do? 
How can we go? 

649
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:38,640
Fix this problem, but 
unrighteousness says, oh tell me

650
00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:42,320
more what else is wrong and they
start getting excited. 

651
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:44,480
Oh see, I told you how Israel 
was man. 

652
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:46,920
I told you how this whole place 
is, they they need something 

653
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:51,200
going on different and snatch 
the hearts away from the people 

654
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:52,760
and the king didn't. 
Even have a chance. 

655
00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:58,600
But what did God do about it? 
Was God fine with it? 

656
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:00,080
So you've got so good. 
Why did he let it happen? 

657
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:04,080
Because God doesn't interfere in
the the administration of man 

658
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:09,680
over planet Earth until He's 
permitted David. 

659
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:12,800
Had the right to say Absalom had
the right to do that in planet 

660
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:17,080
Earth as a human being. 
But we see that that played out,

661
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:19,800
that the course that he was on, 
he could have been king, He 

662
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:21,160
could have done right, He could 
have done something. 

663
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:23,120
But the track that he was on was
derailed. 

664
00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:27,400
That finds himself stabbed in 
the heart with darts. 

665
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:32,400
By his uncle Joab. 
How did we get here? 

666
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:36,640
His movie would start with a you
may see me here. 

667
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:38,160
You know, you're wondering how 
did I get this way? 

668
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:40,800
Then it would rewind and show us
the whole thing that I just 

669
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:44,080
described. 
But his end result was because 

670
00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:47,200
he violated the word. 
He dishonored the leader, that 

671
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:48,280
God. 
Put in his life, it doesn't 

672
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:51,920
matter if it was your dad, God, 
who anointed David that's. 

673
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:57,000
Right. 
I mean, this plays out multiple 

674
00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:58,920
times in the Bible. 
We even mentioned last week that

675
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:01,480
Moses and his brother and 
sister, this is a fam in her 

676
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:03,440
family problem. 
They show up and God brings them

677
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:06,840
to the tent of meeting and says 
you've been complaining about 

678
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:09,560
Moses. 
That means God was in their 

679
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:12,159
conversations, and their 
conversation wasn't just one of.

680
00:34:12,159 --> 00:34:13,880
Leadership. 
It was because he had married an

681
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:16,320
Ethiopian woman for he had 
married an Ethiopian woman. 

682
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:18,080
That's what it says. 
I just quoted it 2 times. 

683
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:20,120
They mentioned it. 
They were they were peeved about

684
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:22,600
it. 
Why are you marrying an 

685
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:24,920
Ethiopian? 
They didn't like it, so whenever

686
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:26,280
they were together, I wasn't 
there. 

687
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:28,239
But I can tell you what they 
were talking about in their 

688
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:30,320
conversation. 
It was that he married an 

689
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:32,600
Ethiopian woman and it had to be
mentioned more than once because

690
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:34,080
they mentioned it more than once
in the Bible. 

691
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:36,239
I. 
Wouldn't have done that. 

692
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:37,880
I wouldn't have married an 
Ethiopian woman. 

693
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:40,120
Why did he do it? 
We. 

694
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:42,320
Prophesied just like him, right?
But like, don't, don't we? 

695
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:44,960
Aren't we anointed of God like 
he, you know, he's God, chose 

696
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:45,840
him. 
But what's he doing? 

697
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:51,000
But God heard every word. 
Moses wasn't sitting outside the

698
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:58,440
tent going No, God heard it. 
God calls Moses and them 

699
00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:00,840
together. 
Moses is just like, sure, hey 

700
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:02,840
what's up bro? 
What's up, sis? 

701
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:06,640
And God goes. 
Why were you not afraid to speak

702
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:09,760
against my servant Moses It. 
Was a shock to some of them. 

703
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:14,880
He didn't say Why were you not 
afraid to attack my servant? 

704
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:16,160
He said. 
Why were you not afraid to open 

705
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:18,040
your mouth against the one I 
anointed? 

706
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:21,840
Your conversation has found you 
in your. 

707
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:26,600
Tent spewing heresy and treason 
against my Kingdom. 

708
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,000
That's why we couldn't talk 
about your mouth and not discuss

709
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:39,400
gossip because gossip is a two 
way St. that both ends have 

710
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:42,160
treason. 
That's where it begins. 

711
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:49,240
That's where it ends every time.
Conversation. 

712
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:54,240
Let me read you the definition 
of the word gossip here. 

713
00:35:54,240 --> 00:35:56,320
This is fun from the Oxford 
Languages Dictionary. 

714
00:35:57,080 --> 00:36:01,120
It is casual or unconstrained 
conversation or reports about 

715
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:04,280
other people, typically 
involving details that are not 

716
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:09,520
confirmed as true. 
I'll read it again. 

717
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:13,480
It says casual. 
Or unconstrained conversation. 

718
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:19,600
Or reports about other people, 
typically involving details that

719
00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:26,800
are not confirmed as true. 
See, we should be people of 

720
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:30,240
truth. 
Again, if we're echoing what God

721
00:36:30,240 --> 00:36:32,960
says, we can go back to John, 
right? 

722
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:36,000
John 11 in the beginning was the
Word, and the Word was with God,

723
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:39,120
and the Word was God. 
God and the Word are synonymous.

724
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:40,800
They are the same. 
The Word is God. 

725
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:42,720
Then later he says, what is 
truth? 

726
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:46,760
Thy word is truth. 
So if we were to be people who 

727
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:52,480
speak truth and speak truth 
alone, well then why would we 

728
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:55,400
entertain things that we don't 
know to be true? 

729
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:56,040
Or not true. 
Amen. 

730
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:02,560
I mean, Jesus said I speak 
nothing of my own initiative, 

731
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:03,880
but only what the Father tells 
me. 

732
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:05,680
The Father is who? 
John 11 in the beginning was the

733
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:06,520
Word. 
The word was with God. 

734
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:08,960
The word was God. 
He says I only speak what God's 

735
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:10,840
word says. 
That's my motive. 

736
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:12,200
That's what I'm doing. 
I don't speak of my own 

737
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:13,640
initiative. 
That means Jesus wasn't walking 

738
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:15,040
around giving his opinion, 
throwing it out. 

739
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:17,280
There's there's some believers 
that it's like they're holding a

740
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:19,160
sack of seeds and it's just 
their opinions and they're just 

741
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:23,120
sowing their opinions everywhere
wondering why their 

742
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:25,320
relationships are hindered. 
Wonder why they got why? 

743
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:26,920
Why does it seem like 
everybody's frustrated at me? 

744
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,400
What? 
What are you sowing? 

745
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:32,520
If you're sowing truth, people 
can be mad at you because of 

746
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:34,240
truth, and Jesus said I'll 
vindicate you there. 

747
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:36,600
But if you're sowing your 
opinion and people get mad at 

748
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:38,040
your opinion, hey, you're on 
your own. 

749
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:41,560
I don't want to be out of here 
all alone. 

750
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:44,840
I want to do things with God. 
We're just saying Hallelujah, I 

751
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:46,880
am not alone. 
But you understand you can get 

752
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:48,160
in a place where you ain't with 
him. 

753
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:54,760
He's not leaving you alone, but 
you can get yourself out 

754
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:59,720
somewhere. 
You left him think about Adam 

755
00:37:59,720 --> 00:38:01,640
and Eve, that God was with him, 
walking with him in the cool. 

756
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:04,720
Of the day. 
And then the snake. 

757
00:38:04,720 --> 00:38:06,040
Pulled up a chair in their 
living room. 

758
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:09,320
So let's talk. 
About what you've been doing. 

759
00:38:10,240 --> 00:38:12,760
Where you at? 
What are you doing for God? 

760
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:15,120
Are you tending the garden? 
OK, You naming the animals? 

761
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:16,280
Elephant. 
That's what you came up with. 

762
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:18,520
OK, that's fine. 
What did God say about this 

763
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:19,040
tree, though? 
We. 

764
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:23,080
Weren't dealing with an elephant
in the room, we're dealing with 

765
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:26,560
a tree in the room, something 
that they knew God has 

766
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:29,400
commissioned me and decreed to 
me what I should do with this 

767
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:29,800
tree. 
He. 

768
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:32,760
Said let's talk about this tree.
What'd God say? 

769
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:34,280
He said. 
God said don't eat from it, the 

770
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:36,080
devil goes. 
What's going to happen? 

771
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:38,560
What's going to happen? 
If you do, it's all right. 

772
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:40,640
We'll die you. 
Won't die. 

773
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:41,920
It'll be fine. 
You look at it. 

774
00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:45,600
Look what it could do for you. 
Look what it could do for you. 

775
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:47,280
If you hungry, you could eat 
from this. 

776
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:52,320
And in that little conversation.
We begin to derail because what 

777
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:54,520
we think and what we say and 
what we do should be governed by

778
00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:55,840
the word. 
But in that moment, what Eve 

779
00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:58,280
thought, it says that she saw 
the tree was good for food and 

780
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:00,480
desirable to make one wise. 
That's a thought. 

781
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:06,920
And then she said, and then all 
of a sudden she ate. 

782
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:12,840
And in this trifecta of a think,
say and do, she derailed because

783
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:15,320
somebody said something that she
believed more than the word. 

784
00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:19,880
Like why was the failure in the 
garden so bad? 

785
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:26,200
Because her allegiance shifted 
from the king to the enemy. 

786
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:30,800
Your conversation always reveals
your allegiance. 

787
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:32,480
Always. 
Amen. 

788
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:37,360
And far be it from anybody at 
Anchor Faith Church to ever show

789
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:39,040
allegiance to something other 
than the word Amen. 

790
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:43,600
Even in conversations with 
brothers and sisters. 

791
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:44,720
You say you. 
Hear what they did to me. 

792
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:47,440
My allegiance isn't me trying to
pick sides with Kirk because, 

793
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:49,240
you know, somebody over here was
mad at Kirk. 

794
00:39:49,240 --> 00:39:50,720
I'm not trying to pick one of 
their sides. 

795
00:39:50,720 --> 00:39:53,000
My side is always, what does the
word say about it? 

796
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:59,000
Oh, you're just loyal to him. 
I'm not loyal to a man. 

797
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:02,880
I'm loyal to the mandate. 
I'm not loyal to a person. 

798
00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:14,040
I'm loyal to a word. 
When gossip takes place, it 

799
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:19,280
betrays trust when it is spoken 
and it betrays integrity when 

800
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:25,160
it's received. 
It's a two way St. 

801
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:29,920
Make no mistake, if you can't 
guard the conversations in your 

802
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:33,120
home, you have no control over 
your home. 

803
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:37,320
If you can't guard your 
conversations at coffee. 

804
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:41,640
I didn't say anything, but did 
you hear everything with no 

805
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:46,680
response? 
We talk about the power of words

806
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:53,320
and you. 
Set there silent, we talk about 

807
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:56,200
the authority of a believer, the
word of God that could rise up 

808
00:40:56,200 --> 00:41:01,560
in you and you. 
Hear treason of the Kingdom and 

809
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:04,320
just listen and think the king 
is going good. 

810
00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:05,600
I'm. 
Good. 

811
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:07,640
I'm glad. 
It's OK. 

812
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:11,560
Who's going to speak for the 
King? 

813
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:16,080
God's always. 
Looking for somebody who's going

814
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:18,960
to declare my word if the if 
God's word being spoken into the

815
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:21,240
earth permits his will to be 
done in the earth, he's always 

816
00:41:21,240 --> 00:41:23,520
looking for somebody who will 
speak my word over a situation. 

817
00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:25,800
You know, we can talk about how 
boldness. 

818
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:28,040
Gets you to declare the word and
we said maturity keeps you to 

819
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:29,680
knows when to keep your mouth 
shut. 

820
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:33,880
There are times to keep your 
mouth shut, but there's also. 

821
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:36,840
But don't ever get those mixed 
up because God. 

822
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:38,920
Forbid we actually say. 
Something when we shouldn't or 

823
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:43,160
we shouldn't, and then we do. 
Wait, God. 

824
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:45,000
Forbid that, we say. 
Something when we shouldn't say 

825
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:47,680
something or we say silent when 
we should have been declaring 

826
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:51,480
the word. 
There's, there's, there's a lot 

827
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:54,160
of times somebody want to, you 
know, even if somebody's come to

828
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:57,080
me about my, my wife or my kids 
and oh, you know, try to sow 

829
00:41:57,080 --> 00:41:59,560
seeds of discord and oh, what 
are they doing? 

830
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:02,480
Hey, shut, shut your mouth. 
You're not bringing that to me. 

831
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:05,760
At times people have come to my 
about my friends, you know? 

832
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:08,120
Oh, your friend, it seems like 
they, you know, they're always 

833
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:10,080
doing this, you know, how can 
you, how can you always hang out

834
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:11,840
with them? 
Shut your mouth. 

835
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:14,360
This is not a conversation for 
me. 

836
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:16,440
I've found that over the years 
people don't come and bring me a

837
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:21,920
bunch of gossip. 
Maybe they scared I don't get a 

838
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:22,880
bunch. 
Of phone calls, of people 

839
00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:24,120
saying, hey, let's, let's hang 
out. 

840
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:26,200
Let's I want to tell you about 
what I think's wrong with you 

841
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:27,480
and and all the people you hang 
out with. 

842
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:30,720
They don't do that because I 
know my response is not going to

843
00:42:30,720 --> 00:42:34,440
just be. 
What I think my response is 

844
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:39,040
going to be the word. 
What does the word say about it?

845
00:42:46,620 --> 00:42:48,900
So let's look at what the word 
says about this subject. 

846
00:42:49,420 --> 00:42:51,420
We're going to do like some 
rapid fire like Apostle Earl 

847
00:42:51,420 --> 00:42:51,860
does. 
I love it. 

848
00:42:51,860 --> 00:42:53,380
And he's like, we're going to do
some rapid fire. 

849
00:42:53,380 --> 00:42:54,460
It doesn't mean I'm going to 
talk fast. 

850
00:42:54,460 --> 00:42:58,620
I'm going to try to talk slower.
I'm I'm aware that I can speak 

851
00:42:58,620 --> 00:43:02,140
at, you know, 400 words a minute
and Gus's up to 1000. 

852
00:43:02,140 --> 00:43:06,360
I'm aware there's some verses 
what we want to put up on the 

853
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:08,480
screen and look at these. 
Psalm 1015. 

854
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:11,360
What does God say about gossip 
and conversation? 

855
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:14,880
Psalm 1015. 
Nope. 

856
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:19,240
Yes. 
Psalm 1015 Whoever slanders his 

857
00:43:19,240 --> 00:43:27,880
neighbor, him I will destroy. 
Good Lord, we just jump right 

858
00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:31,280
here. 
Whoever slanders his neighbor, I

859
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:33,480
will destroy him. 
He will be destroyed. 

860
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:37,920
That's what the Lord is saying. 
OK, let's look at another one. 

861
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:47,000
James chapter 4, verse 11, James
411, coming out of the same 

862
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:50,680
passage as our key text. 
It says do not speak against one

863
00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:53,880
another, brethren, for he who 
speaks against his brother or 

864
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:56,320
judges, his brother speaks 
against the law and judges the 

865
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:57,960
law. 
And if you judge the law, you're

866
00:43:57,960 --> 00:43:59,680
not a doer of the law, but a 
judge of it. 

867
00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:02,920
Now he's not saying don't judge.
That's one of the most 

868
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:06,360
misconstrued, understood things 
from the Christian walk and from

869
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:07,880
the biblical text. 
I'm like, don't judge. 

870
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:09,680
I've never heard somebody look 
at me and go don't judge me. 

871
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:15,000
That wasn't wrong. 
Because David had the opposite, 

872
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:17,920
he said. 
God search my heart and all my 

873
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:20,360
inward parts and see that 
there's any way in me that 

874
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:24,080
displeases you. 
A righteous person once says 

875
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:28,160
judge my behavior. 
When somebody goes don't judge 

876
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:29,920
me, I say there's something in 
there that needs to be judged 

877
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:34,040
then but also. 
You lying, you judge everybody. 

878
00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:36,720
We're all always judging 
everybody. 

879
00:44:38,240 --> 00:44:39,520
I feel like I don't. 
I'm holy. 

880
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:41,360
No, you're not. 
You're judging what I'm saying 

881
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:44,800
right now. 
You're making the determination 

882
00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:46,560
right now in your heart about 
what I'm saying. 

883
00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:48,560
When I stood. 
Up here, you judge. 

884
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:54,440
Whether or not I had hair or 
not, everything we're doing, we 

885
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:58,080
are taking in information and 
words that are being said and, 

886
00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:01,040
and pictures that paint words in
our minds and we are turning 

887
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:03,120
those over in our heads and 
making determinations about 

888
00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:04,280
them. 
That's what we are doing. 

889
00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:06,880
So don't judge my behavior. 
You asked me to turn a blind eye

890
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:08,760
to what you're doing. 
I'm not going to do that. 

891
00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:11,440
I'm not blind. 
What you've done is that is 

892
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:13,880
you've violated the scripture. 
Don't judge me. 

893
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:15,400
I can't pass your final 
judgement. 

894
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:17,400
I'm not God. 
This is not a white throne. 

895
00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:21,120
This is just a pulpit. 
I'm not telling you whether or 

896
00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:22,440
not you're going to be in hell 
or not. 

897
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:23,560
That's not what I'm I can't 
pass. 

898
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:25,640
Cast a final judgement. 
Well, what I can judge is say, 

899
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:28,200
hey, you were a jerk to the 
waitress and you should probably

900
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:29,920
apologize because you represent 
me. 

901
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:31,840
We'll be sitting. 
At this table together and I 

902
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:33,400
feel awkward because you just 
yelled at them. 

903
00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:37,400
Don't judge you, I am judging. 
Be nice. 

904
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:47,840
Look at another passage, 
Ephesians chapter 4, verse 29. 

905
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:52,440
Let no unwholesome. 
Word proceed from your mouth, 

906
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:57,280
but only such a word as is good 
for edification according to the

907
00:45:57,280 --> 00:46:00,400
need of the moment so that it 
will give grace to those who 

908
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:06,400
hear in our conversations. 
They shouldn't just become this 

909
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:09,720
muddy situation of hearing a 
bunch of negativity. 

910
00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:14,400
No, as Kingdom people, we bring 
solutions to problems from the 

911
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:16,280
Word. 
So in the end, the goal is that 

912
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:19,040
we would not let unwholesome 
speech come out of our mouth, 

913
00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:22,320
but that we would be able to 
edify in the moment and give 

914
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:23,560
grace. 
What is grace? 

915
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:26,720
It is not the big cover up, but 
grace is God's empowering 

916
00:46:26,720 --> 00:46:28,840
ability to bring change and 
life. 

917
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:32,600
So whenever you speak to 
somebody, whether regardless of 

918
00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:36,080
what they've said to you, your 
response should bring grace and 

919
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:39,160
empowerment for it to become 
right, become restored, become 

920
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:41,920
whole. 
If you just sit there and agree 

921
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:47,600
and go, yeah, that's all bad, 
you're selling yourself short. 

922
00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:53,240
God wants Kingdom people to show
up and bring life in every 

923
00:46:53,240 --> 00:46:57,120
conversation they have, but that
life is only found in the Word. 

924
00:46:57,120 --> 00:46:59,360
It's not in how you feel or what
you've experienced. 

925
00:47:03,360 --> 00:47:06,200
We'll we'll go over 5 things 
that gossip does. 

926
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:08,280
I want you to take some notes, 
write down these references. 

927
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:10,080
I'm going to read them. 
They may not be on the screen 

928
00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:13,840
'cause I'm going to read them. 
This is our rapid fire. 

929
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:17,880
Part of the rapid fire part. 
Number one thing that gossip 

930
00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:20,160
does is separates and breaks 
relationships. 

931
00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:25,120
Proverbs 1628 said a perverse 
person spreads strife and a 

932
00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:27,840
slanderer separates close 
friends. 

933
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:32,120
A perverse person spreads 
strife, and a slanderer 

934
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:35,520
separates close friends. 
Proverbs 17 nine says one who 

935
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:38,800
conceals an offense seeks love, 
but one who repeats a matter 

936
00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:42,720
separates close friends. 
One who repeats a matter. 

937
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:44,520
You can hear something that's a 
matter. 

938
00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:47,720
And then when you go, Oh, did 
you? 

939
00:47:47,720 --> 00:47:49,480
Hear what so and so said, have 
you? 

940
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:51,920
Gone to so and so. 
Are you repeating something or 

941
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:55,080
did you actually go to them with
the goal of restoration? 

942
00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:58,040
If your hearts that that person 
would be restored, then you 

943
00:47:58,040 --> 00:48:00,280
would start immediately in the 
biblical process. 

944
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:02,600
If they brought it to your ears,
go to the person. 

945
00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:06,200
And I found when God's people 
are doing the God's people thing

946
00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:08,120
and we're locking in love and 
doing the right stuff. 

947
00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:11,760
That's really the only that's 
the only one we got to do. 

948
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:14,120
Go to your brother and normally 
they'll be like, here's the 

949
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:15,240
word. 
I believe the word. 

950
00:48:15,240 --> 00:48:17,000
Let's get right and they get 
right and move on. 

951
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:21,720
But he who repeats the matter? 
See if somebody's like, oh, you 

952
00:48:21,720 --> 00:48:23,840
know, hey, I went to our brother
the other day. 

953
00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:25,280
I asked him to get right. 
He got right. 

954
00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:27,680
But you know what he did? 
Hey. 

955
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:29,520
That ain't love. 
Why are you repeating it? 

956
00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:31,680
You spreading strife and now 
you've gotten this person having

957
00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:35,360
to think about what your brother
did, not trying to cover up. 

958
00:48:35,360 --> 00:48:37,560
You didn't cover up. 
You went to them and you dealt 

959
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:38,760
with it and they got themselves 
right. 

960
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:41,440
And in first John 19, they 
confessed their sin and God was 

961
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:43,200
faithful and just the 
forgiveness of their sin and 

962
00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:44,960
cleanse them from the 
unrighteousness and now it's 

963
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:46,800
made whole. 
Why are you talking about it 

964
00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:49,760
still? 
Slanderer, friend, Separator, 

965
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:53,600
evil. 
Don't judge me, I'm. 

966
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:54,520
Judging you. 
You did it. 

967
00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:57,240
You did the evil thing. 
You repeated a matter. 

968
00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:00,680
That was dealt with shame, 
shame, shame, shame. 

969
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:03,760
Why do I feel shame? 
Because you. 

970
00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:05,720
Deserve it because you violated 
the word. 

971
00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:08,640
So now we got to go to you, 
brother, and say, hey, brother, 

972
00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:11,480
you violated the word. 
You repeated the matter. 

973
00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:12,920
You shouldn't have done. 
You should have guarded and 

974
00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:14,240
protected them. 
But let's restore you. 

975
00:49:14,240 --> 00:49:15,600
And then you bring them back 
into fellowship. 

976
00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:17,640
And you don't go out and tell 
somebody else what so and so did

977
00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:21,400
about so and so. 
It's a vicious cycle. 

978
00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:26,000
You say it is. 
Yeah, I'm telling you. 

979
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:28,200
Our local coffee shops get the 
brunt of it. 

980
00:49:30,720 --> 00:49:32,080
Come meet me for coffee. 
Careful. 

981
00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:33,040
I don't know. 
Maybe. 

982
00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:34,960
What do you want to talk about? 
Tell me that first. 

983
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:36,800
Send me. 
Send me some bullet points. 

984
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:42,120
I. 
Don't know, they'll just want to

985
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:44,480
have free unencumbered 
conversation with you about 

986
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:48,920
people. 
And again, it's not an issue of 

987
00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:52,000
talking about people's lives. 
Listen, nothing brings me more 

988
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:54,320
joy in life with my calling than
people. 

989
00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:58,000
Also, nothing has brought me 
more sorrow in my life than 

990
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:00,360
people. 
But when people are like, oh, 

991
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:01,880
it's, you know, brilliant 
people. 

992
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:02,840
I don't know what these quotes 
are. 

993
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:04,400
Sometimes they come through the 
Facebook or something. 

994
00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:07,160
It's like brilliant people only 
talk about ideas and weak people

995
00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:09,440
talk about people. 
OK, that's not true. 

996
00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:13,800
I love people, I want people 
made whole, I want people 

997
00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:15,480
restored. 
But what you say about the 

998
00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:18,480
people is what matters. 
If you're talking about people's

999
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:20,520
problems, OK then you you're 
weak. 

1000
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:23,520
But that's not scripture anyway.
It's just a meme. 

1001
00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:26,800
Just because it's letters put on
a picture that's cool does not 

1002
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:30,880
mean it is truth. 
Just because five people shared 

1003
00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:32,800
it to you does not make it more 
true. 

1004
00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:38,720
Just because it has 20,000 likes
does not make it biblical truth.

1005
00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:47,960
Oh my goodness. 
Gossip spreads. 

1006
00:50:49,120 --> 00:50:50,680
Gossip spreads. 
The second thing it does it 

1007
00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:51,720
spreads. 
It's addictive. 

1008
00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:54,360
Listen to this Proverbs chapter 
18 verse 8. 

1009
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:56,480
And This is why you got to be 
warned, because it is addictive.

1010
00:50:57,440 --> 00:51:00,440
If anything, if any concept in 
the Bible has MSG sprinkled all 

1011
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:01,600
over it, it's going to be 
gossip. 

1012
00:51:04,560 --> 00:51:07,640
It says Proverbs 18-8, the words
of a whisperer. 

1013
00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:12,440
The words of a whisperer. 
Are like a dainty morsel and 

1014
00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:15,680
they go down into the inward 
most parts of the belly or of 

1015
00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:18,760
the body. 
They're like potato chips. 

1016
00:51:20,120 --> 00:51:21,640
There's no nutritional value 
here. 

1017
00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:24,200
You eat too much of it. 
It's it's not good for you, but.

1018
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:27,240
Somebody's like, you want a 
chip, sure. 

1019
00:51:27,240 --> 00:51:30,120
And when you eat the first one, 
what happens? 

1020
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:32,920
You can't stop. 
And then you ate the whole bag 

1021
00:51:32,920 --> 00:51:34,880
and you're sitting there with an
empty bag and shame. 

1022
00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:39,280
But that's what the same thing 
gossip is whenever somebody. 

1023
00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:41,000
Comes in and goes, hey, you want
to know something? 

1024
00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:43,880
Hey you got the option seal the.
Bag. 

1025
00:51:44,040 --> 00:51:46,240
Put it in the pantry. 
No, I don't. 

1026
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:48,960
Otherwise you go. 
What? 

1027
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:52,280
Is it? 
Hmm. 

1028
00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:55,240
What else you know? 
And then you leave no one on the

1029
00:51:55,240 --> 00:51:56,320
inside. 
Something ain't right. 

1030
00:51:56,320 --> 00:51:57,400
Then you got to start 
justifying. 

1031
00:51:57,400 --> 00:51:58,960
Well, I guess, you know, we do 
care about these people. 

1032
00:51:58,960 --> 00:52:00,560
And I do want to know about all 
the problems in our life. 

1033
00:52:00,560 --> 00:52:01,440
And I guess we could do 
something. 

1034
00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:02,480
Maybe at some point I'll pray 
for them. 

1035
00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:05,960
And you ain't praying. 
You needed to pray before you 

1036
00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:06,960
had. 
The conversations what you 

1037
00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:11,920
needed to do third thing gossip 
does gossip sustains conflict 

1038
00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:15,400
longer than it should. 
Gossip sustains conflict. 

1039
00:52:15,720 --> 00:52:21,240
The Proverbs chapter 26 verse 20
says for a lack of wood, fire 

1040
00:52:21,240 --> 00:52:26,080
goes out, and where there is no 
whisperer, strife quiets down. 

1041
00:52:27,520 --> 00:52:29,800
See, something can be dealt. 
With by the Word, somebody can 

1042
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:31,760
be restored in their church and 
their family. 

1043
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:34,000
Somebody could have made a 
mistake but then be made right. 

1044
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:38,200
But then the. 
Whisperer walks around. 

1045
00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:41,120
Yeah, but did you know what they
did? 

1046
00:52:42,520 --> 00:52:44,280
Can you believe that though? 
Really. 

1047
00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:47,960
Hey, I heard they I heard they 
got it right. 

1048
00:52:48,080 --> 00:52:50,320
They did, but Can you believe 
they had to get it right? 

1049
00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:55,960
Shut your mouth, you ain't 
sitting in my living room saying

1050
00:52:55,960 --> 00:52:58,600
all that. 
What does God say about it? 

1051
00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:02,360
They're saying they've been 
forgiven. 

1052
00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:04,080
They did it. 
They've their sin is as far as 

1053
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:05,840
the East is from the West. 
Let's move on. 

1054
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:11,720
That's nasty. 
Strife only survives on 

1055
00:53:11,720 --> 00:53:13,800
repetition and whispering and 
remembering. 

1056
00:53:15,520 --> 00:53:18,680
OK #4 we already was that number
three. 

1057
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:27,600
Yeah #4 Gossip reveals character
Proverbs 11/13 One who goes 

1058
00:53:27,600 --> 00:53:30,400
about as a slanderer reveal 
secrets, but one who is 

1059
00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:35,120
trustworthy conceals a matter, 
one who goes. 

1060
00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:36,640
About as a slanderer. 
Reveal secrets. 

1061
00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:39,360
Hey, you want to know secret? 
I don't know, but probably not 

1062
00:53:39,360 --> 00:53:41,360
from you. 
I've heard you talk before. 

1063
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:42,480
I don't want to know your 
secrets. 

1064
00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:46,040
You got like a word secret. 
You got a mystery. 

1065
00:53:46,040 --> 00:53:48,280
You want to reveal a revelation 
of what God's doing. 

1066
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:51,560
Are you about to tell me about? 
So and so I don't want to hear 

1067
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:52,520
that. 
Don't tell me your secrets, 

1068
00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:55,520
especially if your breath stank.
Don't become whispering at my 

1069
00:53:55,520 --> 00:53:59,120
face with your stank breath and 
your stank conversation. 

1070
00:54:03,640 --> 00:54:04,640
OK? 
The fifth thing that gossip 

1071
00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:08,240
doves. 
Gossip is able to be stopped by 

1072
00:54:08,240 --> 00:54:15,480
you Proverbs 17/9 again, he who 
we read this, but Proverbs 1791 

1073
00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:18,440
who conceals an offense seeks 
love, but one who repeats a 

1074
00:54:18,440 --> 00:54:21,200
matter separates close friends. 
It can stop with you. 

1075
00:54:22,760 --> 00:54:24,760
You can say we won't go any 
further here. 

1076
00:54:26,440 --> 00:54:29,680
We won't talk about that thing. 
And again you're like, what does

1077
00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:31,200
this have to do with confession?
Everything. 

1078
00:54:31,920 --> 00:54:33,640
Everything. 
Those are the conversations that

1079
00:54:33,640 --> 00:54:35,760
derail your purpose. 
Those are the conversations that

1080
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:38,680
derail your relationships. 
Those who God's entrusted into 

1081
00:54:38,680 --> 00:54:40,960
your life to oversee your soul. 
Those who's God's entrusted. 

1082
00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:43,360
In your life to come alongside 
you as your contemporaries and 

1083
00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:45,600
your friends and your 
colleagues, those people's 

1084
00:54:45,680 --> 00:54:46,920
those, all of those things can 
be. 

1085
00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:51,480
Ruined by you being 
untrustworthy, being evil in 

1086
00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:55,360
your conversation. 
It matters. 

1087
00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:58,720
So what can we do? 
Find a point we make tonight as 

1088
00:54:58,720 --> 00:55:02,840
we can repent because of again, 
if our our life is governed by 

1089
00:55:02,840 --> 00:55:05,040
what we think, what we say and 
what we do. 

1090
00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:08,120
That's why Jesus's first words 
in ministry were repent. 

1091
00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:10,080
That means change the way you 
think. 

1092
00:55:10,320 --> 00:55:12,680
You cannot change your 
conversation. 

1093
00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:17,480
You cannot change your 
confession and your decree 

1094
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:20,440
without first changing the way 
you think and what you think 

1095
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:23,840
about. 
There has to be a harmony 

1096
00:55:23,840 --> 00:55:27,800
between the thoughts in your 
mind, the words of your mouth 

1097
00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:37,960
and the things that you do. 
So look at these, these 4 verses

1098
00:55:38,720 --> 00:55:40,560
and then we'll close. 
Hey, you need it. 

1099
00:55:40,560 --> 00:55:41,680
OK? 
You ain't showing up at Anchor 

1100
00:55:41,680 --> 00:55:42,960
Bay Church, not getting a bunch 
of scripture. 

1101
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:45,080
What do you want me to get up 
here and just tell you stories? 

1102
00:55:47,160 --> 00:55:49,440
I'm giving you the most valuable
thing you're going to get all 

1103
00:55:49,440 --> 00:55:57,080
week. 
So sorry, not sorry, Joshua. 

1104
00:55:57,080 --> 00:56:01,920
Hey, turn there. 1/8 says this 
book of the law shall not depart

1105
00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:05,960
from your mouth, but you shall 
meditate on it day and night, so

1106
00:56:05,960 --> 00:56:10,640
that you may be careful, careful
to do according to what is 

1107
00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:13,080
written in it. 
So what are we to meditate on? 

1108
00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:15,560
God doesn't just say don't think
bad stuff. 

1109
00:56:15,680 --> 00:56:24,200
No, He tells you what to think. 
Think on the Word Psalm 1, 

1110
00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:26,280
verses 2 and 3. 
Psalm 1-2 and three. 

1111
00:56:26,280 --> 00:56:29,200
It says, But his delight is in 
the law of the Lord, and in the 

1112
00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:32,320
law he meditates on it day and 
night, day and night. 

1113
00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:34,920
I. 
Had a bad dream? 

1114
00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:36,960
What were you thinking about 
before you went to bed? 

1115
00:56:37,640 --> 00:56:38,880
Were you stressed? 
Because of work, were you 

1116
00:56:38,880 --> 00:56:40,240
thinking about people's lives 
and situation? 

1117
00:56:40,240 --> 00:56:41,880
Where you thinking about what 
somebody told you? 

1118
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:43,160
Or were you meditating on the 
word? 

1119
00:56:43,240 --> 00:56:45,360
Because I'll tell you something 
the word says about your sleep. 

1120
00:56:45,520 --> 00:56:48,760
It says that he will give his 
beloved sweet letter sweet rest.

1121
00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:51,560
If you don't have sweet rest, 
it's because maybe you're not 

1122
00:56:51,560 --> 00:56:53,680
tapping into that promise of 
God. 

1123
00:56:54,840 --> 00:56:56,280
I was. 
I was always stressed. 

1124
00:56:56,760 --> 00:56:58,480
You ain't meditating on a word. 
The word ain't bringing you 

1125
00:56:58,480 --> 00:57:01,080
stress. 
OK? 

1126
00:57:01,080 --> 00:57:05,120
Second Corinthians 10/5. 
Second Corinthians 10/5. 

1127
00:57:05,120 --> 00:57:10,160
It says taking. 
Every thought captive and 

1128
00:57:10,360 --> 00:57:12,280
bringing it against the 
knowledge that is against the 

1129
00:57:12,280 --> 00:57:14,000
knowledge of God and taking 
every thought captive and 

1130
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:15,720
bringing it into obedience with 
Christ. 

1131
00:57:15,840 --> 00:57:18,760
So every thought that comes to 
you lining up with the word, let

1132
00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:21,560
your allegiance be shown in what
you line your thoughts with. 

1133
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:26,040
You're not going to say God 
things and not be thinking God 

1134
00:57:26,040 --> 00:57:27,760
things as well. 
Out of the abundance of your 

1135
00:57:27,760 --> 00:57:30,200
heart, your mouth speaks and as 
you think in your heart, so 

1136
00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:32,000
argue. 
So those two things tell me 

1137
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:34,680
what's in your mind and in your 
heart is what's coming out of 

1138
00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:37,600
your life. 
So the last scripture we'll look

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00:57:37,600 --> 00:57:39,880
at tonight, we'll close with 
this one in Philippians chapter 

1140
00:57:39,880 --> 00:57:43,320
4, verse 8. 
Philippians 4 verse 8 says this 

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00:57:43,480 --> 00:57:47,160
finally, brothers and sisters. 
Now this is written to a church.

1142
00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:50,080
This is in our time. 
This is written to you and me. 

1143
00:57:50,080 --> 00:57:53,040
Are we brothers and sisters? 
He says, now listen, brothers 

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00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:57,680
and sisters, finally, whatever 
thing is true, whatever is 

1145
00:57:57,680 --> 00:58:02,280
honorable, whatever is right, 
whatever is pure, whatever is 

1146
00:58:02,280 --> 00:58:07,840
lovely, whatever is commendable,
think about these things, Dwell 

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00:58:07,840 --> 00:58:12,000
on these things. 
The first one it mentions 

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00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:13,640
whatever is. 
True. 

1149
00:58:15,080 --> 00:58:17,640
Remember what gossip does. 
Remember gossip is it's, it's 

1150
00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:19,360
having conversations about 
things that aren't really even 

1151
00:58:19,360 --> 00:58:21,320
verified as truth. 
Then I'm not even going to think

1152
00:58:21,320 --> 00:58:22,520
about it or talk to you about 
it. 

1153
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:25,240
Bring me facts. 
Bring me truth. 

1154
00:58:26,080 --> 00:58:27,800
Is it honorable? 
Bring me honorable. 

1155
00:58:27,960 --> 00:58:30,000
Bring me what's lovely. 
Give me a good report. 

1156
00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:31,480
You don't have to always bring 
me negative. 

1157
00:58:33,520 --> 00:58:35,960
You didn't text me back. 
You didn't text me, right? 

1158
00:58:39,080 --> 00:58:40,920
I left you a voicemail and I 
didn't listen to it. 

1159
00:58:41,880 --> 00:58:44,320
I know what you said because 
your character showed out 

1160
00:58:44,320 --> 00:58:47,480
through your conversation. 
Was it pure? 

1161
00:58:47,480 --> 00:58:48,760
Was it true? 
Was it lovely? 

1162
00:58:48,760 --> 00:58:51,400
Was it wholesome? 
Was it a good report? 

1163
00:58:52,400 --> 00:58:53,960
That's what I'm supposed. 
To be thinking about and 

1164
00:58:53,960 --> 00:58:55,520
dwelling on. 
And when you dwell on the word 

1165
00:58:55,520 --> 00:58:58,640
of God and you let the truth 
always manifest in your life and

1166
00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:01,360
your conversations, then you'll 
begin to just speak the truth 

1167
00:59:02,160 --> 00:59:04,200
and you'll be known as a person 
of truth. 

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00:59:11,340 --> 00:59:14,860
We have everything we need, 
everything to live victoriously.

1169
00:59:16,020 --> 00:59:19,700
We have everything we need to 
live with peace on the inside of

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00:59:19,700 --> 00:59:22,500
us. 
But if we. 

1171
00:59:22,500 --> 00:59:26,200
Derail our mouth. 
If we think on the wrong things,

1172
00:59:27,640 --> 00:59:30,320
then we can find ourselves 
washed up on foreign shores. 

1173
00:59:33,880 --> 00:59:35,760
If you bring this whole thing 
around and say there's a voice 

1174
00:59:35,760 --> 00:59:38,880
in the voyage, your voice and 
his voice need to be both 

1175
00:59:39,040 --> 00:59:43,680
declaring the same path. 
And again, this can only happen 

1176
00:59:44,960 --> 00:59:48,720
if you're in the Kingdom. 
Otherwise you sail in circles. 

1177
00:59:53,480 --> 00:59:57,960
The only way to get in the 
Kingdom is to confess with your 

1178
00:59:57,960 --> 01:00:03,200
mouth. 
That's the first thing to make a

1179
01:00:03,200 --> 01:00:05,360
covenant with your mouth that 
Jesus is Lord. 

1180
01:00:05,360 --> 01:00:07,920
He's supreme in authority. 
He's the ruler of your life. 

1181
01:00:08,040 --> 01:00:10,240
He's the captain that guides 
your steps and your 

1182
01:00:10,240 --> 01:00:12,480
conversations. 
That's Lordship. 

1183
01:00:12,880 --> 01:00:16,280
If Jesus and his word aren't 
guiding your conversation, he's 

1184
01:00:16,280 --> 01:00:18,320
not Lord. 
Don't judge me. 

1185
01:00:18,320 --> 01:00:19,520
You don't know my relationship. 
I. 

1186
01:00:19,520 --> 01:00:20,880
Hear your. 
Relationship. 

1187
01:00:21,840 --> 01:00:27,800
Jesus ain't saying that. 
But on the flip side, us here at

1188
01:00:27,800 --> 01:00:30,280
this church, the majority of us,
man, we're loving God. 

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01:00:30,280 --> 01:00:32,160
We're moving forward. 
I can tell Jesus is your Lord 

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01:00:32,160 --> 01:00:35,280
because you speaking truth, 
you're speaking life. 

1191
01:00:35,600 --> 01:00:37,840
Whenever a trial comes, you're 
not falling all apart, you're 

1192
01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:38,720
speaking the Word. 
Why? 

1193
01:00:38,720 --> 01:00:40,120
Because that's the way God 
designed it. 

1194
01:00:40,120 --> 01:00:43,160
We're to be believers that all 
come together, rally together 

1195
01:00:43,160 --> 01:00:46,560
and have the same battle cry, 
which is what does the word say?

1196
01:00:47,440 --> 01:00:48,680
And that's what we repeat.